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Weaving on the Road

17th September 2008

Weaving on the Road

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Jennie Slick and I will be doing a Navajo Weaving Boot Camp at Friendly Crossways Conference Center in Harvard, Massachusetts starting tomorrow evening.  The boot camp is an intensive three day workshop on Navajo weaving that we’ve been doing for the last six years.  Jennie always takes her C-Cactusflower loom with her and gets busy working wherever we are.  The little weaving that she’s working on will probably be sold by the time we return to Arizona next week.  We’ll keep you posted on the workshop at Friendly Crossways over the next few days.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of Jennie with the Ganado Red piece that she’s weaving.

Jennie Slick with the Ganado Red weaving that she's doing on her C-Cactusflower loom.

Jennie Slick with the Ganado Red weaving that she is working on. She's using a C-Cactusflower loom.

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  1. 1 On February 23rd, 2009, Courtney Kappes said:

    Hi, I’m an art teacher and an artist who has recently taken up the medium of fibers (since Katrina). Right now I do a lot of hand knitting but have always been interested in Navajo weaving (i’m originally from Arizona) and am interested in taking a course. I know that you are full for this summer but it there another intensive I may sign-up to take or a teacher in Louisiana.
    Thank you,
    Courtney kappes

    posted on February 23rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm

  2. 2 On February 24th, 2009, Mary Walker said:

    Hi, Courtney! Thank you for your interest in Navajo techniques. I don’t know of anyone teaching this style of weaving in Louisiana, but if you contact a weaving guild near you, they may be able to help. You can find a listing of Louisiana guilds at http://www.textilelinks.com/guild/la.html. I’m also thinking of forming an online study group for Navajo techniques.

    posted on February 24th, 2009 at 7:16 am

  3. 3 On April 6th, 2009, Hope said:

    I really hope you will start the online study group.

    posted on April 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

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    kathleen higham: I'd like to join with you when it starts again!

    Mary Walker: The Munsell color system was developed to provide a precise numeric description of color based on hue, value or lightness and color purity (referred to by Munsell as chroma). This precision is helpful in mixing dyes to achieve the desired results. There is a Munsell study group on Weavolution.com, but I was too busy teaching right now to join. I hope there will be enough people interested to do another group later this year. If you haven't already joined Weavolution, I'd encourage you to do it. The current study group is called the Munsell+dye study group.

    Emmy: I'm curious now. What is a Munsell group? Thanks Emmy

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